Eventful round for me this one!
In practice here I found I was doing some pretty hot lap times, the best I managed was a 1:57:17 I did try for a 56 but I started to crash too much because that ufr starts to lift the inner rear wheel in some of those corners and sometimes roll over.
Bit of a rush around in real life today, as i sold my van, but just made it in time to qualify, but I didnt get much chance of a warm up so was off my pace at the start of qualifying, did a low 58 on my 2nd lap and 3rd I was flying but a yellow flag was out and I didnt see the car who I sadly connected with and rolled over so that lap was gone but I had somehow qualified in seventh place.
Race 1 got started and the battle commenced. I was immediately tight close to #33 M.Hoekstra straight away and would see him a lot during this race along with a fellow Halfords racing team mate #27 U.Mikk.
I clipped an apex and got it up on two wheels, but somehow managed to save it but lost two places, it was all looking a bit pear shaped but I didnt give up, latched onto a slipstream and caught back up and made a move in the chicane on lap 5 which was optimistic but worked out beautifully.
Sadly that great move was wasted when I made a slight error in the final hairpin, lost about 5 mph and conceded the place right back, doh. So I chipped away at #33 M.Hoekstra and stayed with him and on the final hairpin I hit a nice line and got a good exit, he tried to avoid my drafting and get me to lose my speed but I stuck to my line and edged over the line into Lucky 7th place by just 3 hundreths of a second!
I didnt even realise until people said it to me but I had just scored the pole position for race 2, really gave me hope of doing well in a race, even if I dropped to 4th it would have been my best result so far this league. Of course many faster guys werent here but let's ignore this for now.
So race 2 started with little me sitting out in pole shitting my pants, I started off a bit slow at first, unsteady and off pace until the tyres heated up but my rear window was full of a lot of this for the first lap or two.
At one point I was slow in a corner but in the way of #10 M.Pesonen and he gave me a little bump which actually gave me a bit of distance hehe.
I settled a bit got a little bit quicker and got myself a bit of a lead, but most of all, a clear track in front of me.
At this point second and third were fighting for position so I knew I was safe, a little coming together behind me in the hairpin gave me the room I hoped for.
Some serious concentration was then needed to go the rest of the distance. I hit a barrier on one lap which didnt damage me badly but lost some time but I had plenty to work with.
I wasnt putting in the fastest laps which was worrying, I could feel #5 J.Parker gaining on me but i'm not sure if he was or not, he certainly was breaking away from the main pack of cars a bit. I wouldnt have any of it! I got my head down started going faster and on the final lap did a high 57 which scored the fastest lap of the race and my first baby-r win. More like 5 minutes of fame teehee, thank you lucky 7s.
Race 3 I was simply grinning too much to drive, and rolled the car off a curb in the final hairpin, in an awkward position.
My first DNF of the season so no more 100% finish ratio doh, even so I was still really happy about the win, it means a lot to me.
Thanks every body for such clean, fast paced action, babyrs really shine at this track eh?